Fluvial processes and facies sequences in the sandy braided South Saskatchewan River, Canada

The South Saskatchewan River has a long term average discharge of 275 m³/sec, with flood peaks in the range of 1500 to 3800 m³/sec. South of Saskatoon, the four major types of geomorphological elements recognised are channels, slipface-bounded bars, sand flats and vegetated islands and floodplains. Major channels are 3-5 m deep, up to 200 m wide, and flow around sand flats which are 50-2000 m long, and around vegetated islands up to 1 km long. At areas of flow expansion, long straight-crested cross-channel bars form. During falling stage, a small part of the crest of the cross-channel bar may become emergent, and act as a nucleus for downstream and lateral growth of a new sand flat. The dominant channel bedforms are dunes, which deposit trough cross bedding. Cross-channel bars deposit large sets of planar tabular cross bedding. Sand flats that grow from a nucleus on a cross-channel bar are mostly composed of smaller planar tabular sets, with some parallel lamination, trough cross-bedding, and ripple cross-lamination. A typical facies sequence related to sand flat growth would consist of in-channel trough cross-bedding, overlain by a large (1-2 m) planar tabular set (cross-channel bar), overlain in turn by a complex association mostly of small planar tabular cross-beds, trough cross-beds and ripple cross-lamination. By contrast, a second stratigraphic sequence can be proposed, related only to channel aggradation. It would consist dominantly of trough cross-beds, decreasing in scale upward, and possible interrupted by isolated sets of planar tabular cross-bedding if a cross-channel bar formed, but failed to grow into a sand flat. During final filling of the channel, ripple cross-lamination and thin clay layers may be deposited. In the S. Saskatchewan, these sequences are a minimum of 5 m thick, and are overlain by 0.5-1 m of silty and muddy vertical accretion deposits.     

鄂尔多斯盆地徐庄组碳酸盐岩风暴沉积发育特征及其地质意义

鄂尔多斯盆地寒武系徐庄组发育碳酸盐岩风暴沉积现象。风暴沉积主要包括侵蚀底面、风暴砾屑层、丘状和洼状层理等沉积构造。沉积构造在不同的条件下会形成不同的沉积序列,理想的沉积序列包括5个沉积单元,从下到上依次为：A侵蚀底面及砾屑段,代表风暴高峰期和衰减期的沉积作用,底面有突变的底界及特殊的沉积构造;B粒序段,为风暴减弱时沉积物从下向上变细的层段;C平行纹层段;D丘状纹层段,为风暴衰减期流体性质逐渐由密度流变为牵引流时形成的产物;E水平层理泥岩和泥晶灰岩段,为风暴停息期晴天条件下的产物。经野外考察发现研究区共可识别出5种不同类型的沉积序列组合,每种序列组合有不同的沉积特点,代表的沉积环境也不同。研究区寒武系徐庄组碳酸盐岩风暴沉积的发现和研究,对于古板块演化与古纬度恢复、鄂尔多斯盆地古地理研究具有重要的意义。     

鄂尔多斯盆地延长组长9油层组三角洲砂岩沉积特征

通过钻井、录井、测井及岩心等资料的综合分析,识别出辫状河三角洲和曲流河三角洲是鄂尔多斯盆地上三叠统延长组长9油层组主要的三角洲沉积相类型。辫状河三角洲分布于盆地西部,辫状分流河道和辫状水下分流河道发育砂岩,砂岩中主要发育冲刷面、槽状交错层理、板状交错层理和平行层理等,以向上变细的正粒序为主,砂岩粒度概率曲线主要为两段式或三段式。曲流河三角洲分布于盆地东部,陆上分流河道、水下分流河道和河口坝发育砂岩,砂岩中主要发育冲刷面、槽状交错层理、板状交错层理、平行层理和砂纹层理等,以向上变细的正粒序为主,也可见向上变粗的逆粒序,砂岩粒度概率曲线主要为两段式或三段式,可见四段式。进一步的对比分析表明,盆地内长9油层组辫状分流河道、辫状水下分流河道和陆上分流河道中砂体最发育,水下分流河道和河口坝砂体次之。     

湘东南桂阳莲塘上泥盆系风暴岩特征及其古地理、古气候意义

摘　要湖南省桂阳县莲塘镇石龙村上泥盆统锡矿山组以台地相灰岩、白云质灰岩、灰质白云岩为主。该组下部发育典型的风暴岩沉积。风暴沉积标志包括:渠铸型、竹叶状砾屑放射状组构、丘状或洼状交错层理、平行层理、递变层理、块状层理。风暴岩包括４种岩相类型:Ａ－具块状层理的“竹叶状”砾屑灰岩（底部为冲刷侵蚀面或冲刷渠）,Ｂ－具递变层理的砾屑灰岩,Ｃ－具丘状、洼状交错层理的砂屑灰岩,Ｄ－具均质或水平层理的泥状灰岩。它们组成４种典型的风暴沉积序列:Ａ—Ｄ序列、Ａ—Ｃ—Ｄ序列、Ｂ—Ｃ—Ｄ序列、Ｂ—Ｄ序列。湘东南上泥盆统风暴岩的首次发现表明晚泥盆世该区位于低纬度的风暴作用带,它对认识泥盆纪的古气候具有重要意义.     

Distinctive thin-bedded turbidite facies and related depositional environments in the Eocene Hecho Group (South-central Pyrenees, Spain)

The vertical and lateral stratigraphic relations of facies and facies associations, palaeocurrent directions, and geometry and internal organization of associated thick-bedded and coarse-grained bodies of sandstone provide the framework for distinguishing five thin-bedded turbidite facies in the Eocene Hecho Group, south-central Pyrenees, Spain. Each facies is characterized by a number of primary features which are palaeoenvironmental indicators by themselves. These features and their palaeoenvironmental significance are summarized below.

• 1 The impressive regularity and lateral persistence of bedding and depositional structures, combined with the association of thin hemipelagic intercalations are typical characteristics of the basin plain thin-bedded turbidites. Lateral variations in bed thickness, internal structures, grain size, sand: shale ratio, and amounts of hemipelagic intercalations are present in these sediments, but take place so gradually that they cannot generally be recognized at the scale of even very large exposures. The basin plain facies has a remarkable character of uniformity over great distances and considerable stratigraphic thicknesses.
• 2 Thickening-upward and/or symmetric cycles with individual thicknesses ranging from a few metres to a few tens of metres are typical of lobe-fringe thin-bedded turbidites. The sediments that comprise the cycles contain small but recognizable variations in bed thickness and sand: shale ratio. The diagnostic cyclic pattern can be detected in relatively small exposures. It should be noted that in absence of coarse-grained and thick-bedded sandstone of the depositional lobes the above cyclic pattern is diagnostic of fan-fringe areas.
• 3 An extremely irregular bedding pattern with lensing, wedding, and amalgamation of individual beds over very short distances, sharp rippled tops of many beds, and internal depositional structures indicative of mainly tractional processes without substantial fallout, are typical and exclusive characteristics of channelmouth thin-bedded turbidites.
• 4 Bundles of interbedded thin-bedded sandstone and mudstone as thick as a few metres that are separated in vertical sequences by mudstone units of roughly similar or greater thickness are typical of interchannel thin-bedded turbidites. The most diagnostic feature of this depositional environment is the presence of beds of sandstone filling broad shallow channels as probable crevasse-splays.
• 5 Thin, thoroughly rippled sandstone beds with marked divergence of the bedding attitude characterize the channel-margin facies. The divergence or expansion in thickness, is consistently toward the channel axis. Small and shallow channels filled with thin-bedded deposits, interpreted here as crevasses cut into channel edges or levees during period of severe overbanking are also characteristic.

     

山东诸城棠棣戈庄早白垩世晚期恐龙足迹化石新发现及其意义*

新近野外调查发现,山东诸城西北棠棣戈庄下白垩统大盛群发育蜥脚类恐龙足迹化石,其赋存于大盛群田家楼组紫红色细砂岩、泥质粉砂岩、粉砂质泥岩和黄绿色粉砂岩韵律层中。研究区共发现29个恐龙足迹化石,其中有23个构成1条半圆形行迹,初步研究确定造迹者为蜥脚类恐龙,个体较小、身长3～4m、处于漫步状态。根据岩层中共生发育的小型槽状交错层理、板状交错层理、爬升波纹层理、水平层理、雨痕、泥裂等沉积构造,认为研究区下白垩统大盛群为滨浅湖沉积,可进一步划分出砂质滩坝、滩坝边缘、沙泥混合滩及泥滩等沉积微相,恐龙足迹化石产在砂质滩坝微相细砂岩、粉砂岩层面上。河湖相细砂岩、粉砂岩有利于恐龙足迹化石赋存,也暗示蜥脚类恐龙喜好在湖岸边活动,表明生活习性与生存环境具有一定的相互制约关系。     

鄂尔多斯盆地晚二叠世湖相沉积

鄂尔多斯盆地晚二叠世湖相沉积主要由灰棕色砂砾岩和红至灰色泥岩组成,厚500-600米。从该套沉积中已识别出五个主要相组合,即水下扇、湖岸冲积平原、湖成三角洲、边缘湖和滨外湖相组合。水下扇相发育于研究区西南缘,冲积平原相发育于研究区北部,湖成三角洲相发育于研究区北部和东部,边缘湖相发育于研究区中部,滨外湖相发育于研究区南部。     

浅水型三角洲前缘砂体叠加样式——以鄂尔多斯盆地姬源地区长9油层组为例

为研究砂体叠加样式对浅水型三角洲前缘砂体发育规模及程度的影响,利用鄂尔多斯盆地姬源地区长9油层组沉积构造、测井相等分析浅水型三角洲特征,刻画浅水型三角洲前缘砂体叠加样式及分布规律。研究认为姬源地区发育平行层理、槽状交错层理、板状交错层理等层理构造及垂直虫孔、碳化植物茎干等生物标志,测井曲线多见顶底突变的单个或叠合“箱型”。识别出均质叠合厚层砂体、向上变细中厚层砂体及向上变粗复合砂体3种砂体叠加样式。浅水三角洲前缘水下分流河道单砂体在垂向上由下到上由数量少、厚度小到数量多、厚度大再到数量少、厚度小的演化特点,在平面上砂体分布受控于湖盆水位线的高低变化,低水位期受湖水顶托作用砂体快速堆积,砂厚域广,高水位期砂体的规模明显变小,与鄂尔多斯盆地由初次湖泛到第一次大型湖泛之间的沉积演化密切相关。     

大港滩海埕北断阶区沙河街组三段、二段近岸水下扇沉积微相特征

大港滩海埕北断阶区沙河街组沙三段、沙二段砂体是由辫状水道控制的近岸水下扇。主要发育基质支撑砂砾岩相、颗粒支撑砂砾岩相、正递变层理砾岩相、含砾砂岩相、逆递变层理砾岩相、含砾砂岩相、泥质支撑砂岩相和粉砂岩相,粒度粗是其主要特征;水平层理、块状层理、平行层理、交错层理、波状层理、包卷层理和变形层理十分发育;砂球、重荷模、砂岩脉和冲刷面等沉积构造也十分发育：电阻率曲线呈正韵律,曲线由高幅至中幅呈钟形及箱形,与不同岩性和不同沉积相具良好对应关系。通过对区内各井的岩性组合观察,结合各砂层组的沉积特征及其相应的测井相标志将研究区近岸水下扇划分为2个亚相和5个微相：扇中(包括辫状水道、辫状水道间和扇中前缘)和扇端亚相(扇端泥、扇端席状砂)。其中扇中辫状水道为主要储集层。     

STRUCTURES OF DUNES AT WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT,NEW MEXICO (AND A COMPARISON WITH STRUCTURES OF DUNES FROM OTHER SELECTED AREAS)1

The type, scale, and relative abundance of sedimentary structures in four kinds of dunes at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, were determined by examination of vertical sections on walls of trenches cut through the dunes both in a windward direction and at right angles to this direction. Analysis of cross-stratification in all dunes examined indicated certain common features: sets of cross-strata mostly are medium- to large-scale; nearly all laminae dip downwind at high angles (not uncommonly at 30°-34°); most bounding surfaces between sets of cross-strata are nearly horizontal on the upwind side, but have progressively steeper dips to lee, downwind; and individual sets of cross-strata tend to be thinner and the laminae flatter near the top than at the bottom of a dune in vertical section. Sparse but distinctive structural features that are characteristic of the four types of dunes are varieties of contorted bedding, rare ripple laminae, and either local scour-and-fill bedding, or festoon bedding. Other structures, apparently limited to either one or two types of dunes, are the concave-downward foresets in some parabolic dunes; the low-angle reverse dips of upwind strata on high transverse dunes; and the almost horizontal laminae which represent apparent dip in sections normal to wind direction in dome-shaped and transverse dunes. Describing cross-stratification in terms of three dimensions, dune structure at White Sands consists dominantly of the tabular planar sets, with units thickest near the dune base, thinner above. To a lesser extent the sets are of simple (non-erosion) tabular form and relatively uncommonly, of the trough type. Wedge planar forms are scarce. The planar forms characteristically are of two classes in nearly equal proportions: those in which bounding surfaces are virtually horizontal and those in which they dip at moderate to high degree. A brief comparison is made between the structures of dunes that are characteristic of one effective wind direction, as at White Sands, and certain others formed by winds of two or more directions. Seif dunes of Libya, reversing dunes of the San Luis Valley, Colorado, and star dunes in Saudi Arabia are discussed as examples of complex dunes formed by multi-directional winds.     

徐州赵圩地区新元古界风暴沉积序列类型及其水深控制

广义的风暴沉积是自然界内外地质营力促使海水产生足够大的漩涡流,对海底及海岸冲蚀形成的一种事件沉积.徐州赵圩地区发育丰富的晚元古代风暴沉积记录,通过野外露头剖面岩性观察与室内整理,划分出7种不同水深的风暴沉积序列类型.根据冲刷面、滞积层、丘状交错层理(HCS)、液化卷曲层理等典型风暴特征,可将这7种序列与浅海陆棚边缘-台地前缘缓斜坡-台前潮上环境的连续沉积相对应.据此分析了风暴沉积序列与水深的关系,并针对本区的沉积特点对风暴沉积成因进行探讨.     

宣化地区古老的潮汐沉积

大约在十八亿年前左右,在经过长期风化剥蚀后基本上处于准平原状态的华北地台上,沿着北东向的几条基底断裂,形成一个沿朝阳、蓟县、石家庄、长治一线展布的北东向长形断陷沉积盆地。初期,可能仅在局部地区(如蓟县附近)沉积河流相砂砾岩。     

滇中中元古代昆阳群因民组碎屑风暴岩及其意义

滇中地区中元古代昆阳群因民组以碎屑岩为主,内发育典型的风暴沉积构造 (包括渠铸型、丘状交错层理和洼状交错层理、递变层理等 )。风暴沉积主要包括 4种岩相类型 :A -具口袋构造的递变层理砂岩段。B -具丘状或洼状交错层理的砂岩段。C -具均质层理的粉砂岩、泥质岩段。D -具水平层理的泥质岩段。上述岩相A、B、C分别代表风暴流作用 -风暴浪作用 -风暴后期的快速悬浮沉积 (事件沉积 ),D代表风暴过后缓慢悬浮沉积 (背景沉积 ),它们组合成不同的风暴沉积序列。滇中地区昆阳群风暴沉积的发现表明中元古代大气圈、水圈及其相互作用与现今近似;中元古代滇中地区位于低纬度 (5 - 30°)的风暴作用带。该沉积对于解释因民组递变层砂岩的成因、证实昆阳群的地层层序也具有重要意义。     

云南丽江古近纪风成沉积的发现及其气候意义

云南丽江地区宝相寺组（E2b）下部（原美乐组）一直被认为是水成沉积,本文认为其属于风成沉积。宝相寺组下部巨厚砂岩的主体岩性为紫红色中细粒石英砂岩,不含泥质和云母等悬移质,大型高角度平板状交错层理发育,厚度巨大,风成沙丘前积层特征明显。石英砂的磨圆度高,在电子显微镜下普遍可见风成砂所特有的碟形撞击坑、新月型撞击坑及毛玻璃化表面等特征,可能为沙漠风成沙丘沉积。研究区古近纪以来的沉积特征表明,青藏高原东部的气候经历了一个由干旱到潮湿的重大转变。推测这种气候转变可能是始新世、渐新世之交全球变冷变干事件（EOGM）在青藏高原东部的沉积响应,也可能与青藏高原初次快速隆升及东亚古季风的开始形成有关。     

琼东南盆地崖13-1气田陵三段沉积微相对储层非均质性及流动单元划分的影响

崖13-1气田陵三段是河控与潮控的辫状三角洲,主要储层沉积微相为分流河道、水下分流河道、河口坝、远砂坝及席状砂,其中河口坝的储层物性比分流河道和水下分流河道微相好,席状砂与远砂坝的物性相对较差,而各类正韵律河道与反韵律的砂坝决定了各垂向流动单元储层韵律特征。气田内的隔夹层与不同规模的海泛面相关,隔层以前三角洲泥为主,分布稳定,而夹层以分流间湾与水下分流间湾泥为主,分布较局限。结合沉积微相分布、储层非均质性及断层的分布,可以把气田区分为两个大区及6个流动单元,而南II、南III区仍可有较好的储层,但由于构造上处于低部位,含气前景还需进一步论证。     

浅议塔河地区“东河砂岩”三角洲沉积

近年来在塔河地区钻揭了一套典型的河控三角洲相“东河砂岩”,它与东河塘、塔中和哈得逊等地区发现的前滨相和滨面相“东河砂岩”明显不同.钻井岩心上该套三角洲相砂岩表现为板状交错层理、平行层理厚砂体;粒度概率具有河道、河口坝微相特征;平面上地震振幅、反射强度斜率属性异常呈以S99、T728井为中心的“鸟足状”外形;古盐度测试结...     

A case of normal regression with sea level transgression: Example from the Ganurgarh shale,Vindhyan basin,Maihar area,M.P., India

The Ganurgarh shale, a formation belonging to the Bhander Group of Vindhyan basin is investigated using field based detailed lithofacies and petrofacies analyses in order to interpret the depositional environment in a sequence stratigraphic context. Five major lithofacies have been recognized consisting of calcareous sandstones, laminated mudstones, rippled siltstones, red-grey shales and sandy limestones characterized by small to large-scale cross-bedding, ripple cross-lamination of wave and current origin, parallel lamination, low-angle horizontal bedding, flaser and lenticular bedding, mud-cracks, salt pseudomorphs, convolute bedding and load structures. The constituent lithofacies are recurring and grouped into three lithofacies associations where, the association A is composed of fining upwards and B with coarsening upwards cycles at the lower and middle levels of the succession respectively, are dominantly arenaceous whereas, the association C occurring at upper levels is fining upwards (FU) and becomes calcareous with meager representation of clastics. Petrographically, the section offers three main petrofacies viz., (a) sandstone- (b) siltstone- (c) sandy limestone-petrofacies. Lithofacies characters complimented with petrography show that deposition occurred within the shoreface (subtidal) to foreshore intertidal domain involving tidal flats with sub-environments ranging from intertidal to supratidal. However, lithofacies associations within the Ganurgarh shale of Maihar area represent a case of normal regression during sea level transgression. In the beginning, probably because of excessive sediment supply the sea level had a falling trend during an overall transgressive phase ultimately culminating into limestone sedimentation.     

Structural characterization of the fracture systems in the porcelanites: Comparing data from the Monterey Formation in California USA and the Sap Bon Formation in Central Thailand

The fractures in the porcelanites from the Monterey Formation in California USA and the Sap Bon Formation in Central Thailand were documented for a comparative study of their modes, distribution, and their relationship to other structures such as folds and bedding planes. Both formations consist in thinly bedded stiff units that are prone to folding, flexural slip, and cross-bedding brittle fracturing under compression. There are two assemblages in the porcelanites. The first assemblage includes commonly vertical high-angle opening mode fractures, left-lateral strike-slip faults, normal faults, and thrust faults. The second one is sub-horizontal fractures which are associated with folds, bedding slip, and thrusts faults in both Monterey and Sap Bon formations. The structural architectures of these rocks and the associated groups of structures are remarkably similar in terms of both opening and shearing modes and their relationships with the bedding due to their depositional architecture and the compressional tectonic regimes, in spite of the fact that the two locations are more than ten thousand kilometers apart and have very different ages of deformation.     

蓟县雾迷山组碳酸盐岩原地型风暴沉积特征及成因探讨

蓟县地区雾迷山组碳酸盐岩地层中发育原地型风暴沉积,它具有A、B、C和D四个沉积单元,即下部单元A为丘状角砾岩,中部单元B为波纹状层理,上部单元C为水平层理,顶部单元D为厚层一块层状层理,运用现代气象学和海洋水文学的研究成果,文章对该区原地型风暴沉积的成因作了初步探讨,认为在风暴作用下,形成海水高速涡漩,受风暴控制的碳酸盐台地或浅海沉积盆地底部沉积物被剪切、打碎而形成角砾,风暴衰减后,几乎在原地沉积下来,形成了具有独特韵律的沉积构造。     

湘中地区中奥陶统“桃江式”锰矿的成矿作用研究

湘中地区“桃江式”锰矿产于中奥陶统磨刀溪组斜坡相-盆地边缘相沉积之中。发育锰矿层１～２层,锰矿层具有粒序层理、平行层理、斜纹层、水平纹层及角砾状等构造,夹于深水低能的暗色泥岩之中,是一种碳酸盐重力流沉积。其形成受区域构造、岩相古地理、沉积事件及水介质物理化学条件等的影响。其沉积学和地球化学特征显示锰质主要由海底热水补给,是一种热水成矿作用的产物。